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World Socialist Website
07-21-2015, 08:14 AM
”Radicalized” US residents should be subject to indefinite detention “for the duration” of the global war on terrorism, Clark said during a recent interview with MSNBC.

More... (http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/21/clar-j21.html)

blindpig
07-21-2015, 02:03 PM
"On a national policy level, we need to look at what self-radicalization means, because we are at war with this group of terrorists,” the former top military commander added. “They do have an ideology. In World War II, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.”

He continued: “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right, and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict."

Get ready.

Kid of the Black Hole
07-21-2015, 02:17 PM
"On a national policy level, we need to look at what self-radicalization means, because we are at war with this group of terrorists,” the former top military commander added. “They do have an ideology. In World War II, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.”

He continued: “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right, and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict."

Get ready.

Somehow this killing was an act of war+terrorism but when chuch goers are executed explicitly for being black, its just a lone nutjob and all is salved over by singing a (racially tinged) song.

blindpig
07-21-2015, 02:33 PM
Somehow this killing was an act of war+terrorism but when chuch goers are executed explicitly for being black, its just a lone nutjob and all is salved over by singing a (racially tinged) song.

I dunno if it was a trial balloon or something but I heard on the radio that the dude's beef was that the US was not doing enough to take down Assad.

Guess that didn't fly with the focus group.

Dhalgren
07-21-2015, 02:50 PM
"On a national policy level, we need to look at what self-radicalization means, because we are at war with this group of terrorists,” the former top military commander added. “They do have an ideology. In World War II, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war.”

He continued: “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right, and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict."

Get ready.

I wonder how far that " they are disloyal to the United States" goes. Does it include capitalism? How about the "two party system"? What will be the definition of "disloyal"? Jeziz, this is like some bad movie.

blindpig
07-21-2015, 02:57 PM
I wonder how far that " they are disloyal to the United States" goes. Does it include capitalism? How about the "two party system"? What will be the definition of "disloyal"? Jeziz, this is like some bad movie.

Certainly, "the business of America is business." But I think that when that shit-train pulls in we'll have something like a 'national unity government''.

Dhalgren
07-21-2015, 03:01 PM
national unity government

Primarily military, no doubt, with solid oligarch support.

Kid of the Black Hole
07-23-2015, 08:14 AM
I'm a disloyal American

blindpig
07-23-2015, 08:57 AM
I'm a disloyal American

No shit, they cast a very wide net, purposefully so.

(Time for me to bone-up on the lizards of Utah, something to do in my old age...)

Dhalgren
07-23-2015, 10:29 AM
No shit, they cast a very wide net, purposefully so.

(Time for me to bone-up on the lizards of Utah, something to do in my old age...)

I doubt they'd waste food on old geezers like us. How plain is it now, that the only thing holding the US (and world) ruling class at bay for all those years was the Soviet Union?

I am with the Kid. My children are actually afraid for me - that my "anti-Americanism" will cause me "trouble". What can you say?

blindpig
07-23-2015, 11:06 AM
I doubt they'd waste food on old geezers like us. How plain is it now, that the only thing holding the US (and world) ruling class at bay for all those years was the Soviet Union?

I am with the Kid. My children are actually afraid for me - that my "anti-Americanism" will cause me "trouble". What can you say?

Well, at least your kids take things seriously, which is better than being thought a deluded crackpot.

Dhalgren
07-23-2015, 11:11 AM
Well, at least your kids take things seriously, which is better than being thought a deluded crackpot.

Oh, they leave a little room for the "deluded crackpot", as well.